A stationer & small press
Made to be written on.
Section-sewn notebooks, warm ivory writing paper, machined brass pens, and the desk pieces and correspondence that go with them. One house paper, an honest colophon on every piece — the stock, the weight in grammes, the ruling, the refill it takes.
The colophon
Most shops tell you a notebook is beautiful. We would rather tell you the stock is a 120 gsm uncoated ivory, that the block is section-sewn so it opens flat, and that a wet fountain ink ghosts faintly on the reverse. You can decide about beautiful yourself.
The stock
Named to the paper and the make — '120 gsm uncoated ivory, acid-free', not 'premium paper'. One house ivory across the range.
How it is made
Ruling, extent, binding — '5 mm dot grid · 192 pages · section-sewn, opens flat'. And the refill a pen takes, so you can reorder without measuring.
Good to know
The line most shops leave out. The dot grid is a pale grey. The brass patinas. The ivory is warm, not white. Better read now than discovered later.
By category
Notebooks & Journals
Section-sewn books that open flat and take fountain ink without bleeding. One ivory stock, three rulings, sizes from pocket to desk.
Paper & Pads
Loose leaves for thinking on — writing pads, refill paper, index cards, a gummed memo block. The same warm ivory stock across the range.
Writing
Brass and cedar in the hand. A machined rollerball, a mechanical pencil, refills you can reorder, and a bottle of documentary ink.
Desk & Filing
For keeping a desk in order — a folded brass tray, an oak pen rest, chipboard files and a weighted blotter. Quiet, and built to stay.
Correspondence
Letters you still send by hand. Note cards, lined envelopes, a boxed letter set, and a brass seal for the ones that matter.
Sets & Gifting
Assembled to start someone off, priced below the sum of the parts. Every set lists exactly what is inside it.
A place to start
The pieces we would put on our own desk first.
A5 Notebook — Dot Grid
148 × 210 mm, section-sewn, 192 pages of house ivory
$26.00
B5 Cloth Journal — Dot Grid
176 × 250 mm, bookcloth over board, ribbon and elastic
$44.00
Brass Rollerball Pen
Machined solid brass, 0.7 mm rollerball
$68.00
Documentary Ink — 30 ml
Permanent iron-gall-style writing ink, blue-black
$22.00
Weighted Oak Blotter
Rocking desk blotter, oak and brass
$88.00
Note Cards — Set of Ten
Folded A6 cards with lined envelopes
$22.00
One paper, five makes
We work in a narrow range, on purpose.
One house paper, and the makes chosen against it. Each behaves in a specific way — raw brass takes a patina, oiled oak wants re-oiling, bookcloth softens at the spine — and we would rather explain that than pretend otherwise.
The type-specimen sheetThe house paper
A single 120 gsm uncoated ivory, milled with a close, smooth surface that holds a fountain line crisp and shows only the faintest ghosting on the reverse. Acid-free, so a page written today is still true in thirty years.
Bookcloth
A woven cotton bookcloth over the boards, dyed through so a scuff does not show pale beneath. It softens at the spine with use and does not crack.
Chipboard
Dense recycled grey board for covers, files and folders — the honest grey of a printer's workshop, left unlaminated so it takes a stamp and ages plainly.
Brass
Machined solid brass, left raw. It starts bright and dulls to a warm patina that maps where a hand has held it. A polish brings the shine back whenever you want it.
Cedar & oak
Incense cedar for pencils, sharpening to a clean point and carrying its scent; European oak, oiled not lacquered, for the desk pieces.
Glass
Pressed clear glass for the inkwell and the pen rest — heavy in the base so it stays put, and easy to rinse clean between inks.